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Boronia spathulata Lindl.
Boronia

Reference
Sketch Veg.Swan R. 17 (1839)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect, slender shrub, 0.15-1 m high. Fl. pink-red, Jan to Dec. Sandy soils. Dunes, damp or wet places, flats.

Grazyna Paczkowska, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 August 1996
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Scientific Description

Shrub, spines absent; branchlets smooth, without distinct raised glands, +/- cylindrical in cross-section, glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, 5-30 mm long, 1-12 mm wide, flat, the margins flat or revolute, smooth, without distinct raised glands, glabrous; stipular excrescences absent. Flowers in terminal, loose clusters (cymes or panicles); pedicels 8-10 mm long; calyx present, 3-7 mm long, verrucose (warty), glabrous; corolla red or pink, petals four, 7-12 mm long, imbricate (overlapping), free, glabrous; stamens twice as many as petals, 2-5 mm long, smooth, ciliate (with a marginal fringe of hairs); anthers 1-1.2 mm long, without an appendage. Flowers in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Warren and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA region(s).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 14 November 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Northern Jarrah Forest, Perth, Recherche, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste, WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Beverley, Boyup Brook, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Broomehill-Tambellup, Busselton, Collie, Cranbrook, Denmark, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kojonup, Lake Grace, Manjimup, Mundaring, Murray, Nannup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Wandering, West Arthur, Williams, Woodanilling.